18 awful vintage ads from the 20th century that show how far we have progressed

This Pears Soap ad from the 1900s is one of many racist vintage ads.
vintage-ads.livejournal.com
It's true that some modern-day ads objectify women, but there's no way companies could get away with what they just did a half-century ago.

In the pre-Civil Rights era, major brands like Kellogg's featured sexist slogans, like "The Harder A Wife Works, The Cuter She Looks."

Other companies promoted pseudoscience that we now know to be utter bunk: 7-Up told moms to add the soda to their babies' milk; Camel cigarettes was marketed as "the doctor's favorite brand."

It makes you wonder how many of today's ads will shock our grandkids' generation.